MS · #223 · $2

Candy Cane Cash

Mississippi· Launched Nov 2025· 274 days on shelf· scanned 37d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.55

USA percentile

8th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$500 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-29

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Candy Cane Cash is a $2 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #223). It launched in November 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500 remains unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.40. Our models put its expected value at 0.55 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.55 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.55 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.10% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 8th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

7 tiers · % remaining
$500
1/10
10%
$100
3/30
$50
105/1.3K
$20
754/7.0K
$10
2.1K/18.1K
$5
6.9K/50.1K
$2
10.0K/60.1K

Total unclaimed prize value: $96,372 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active MS games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MS median0.60 EV/$
YOU · 8th
USA: 8th percentileMS: 35th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d

Price vs EV — MS field

96 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.250.500.96YOU

No other active MS games currently clear break-even.

Top-prize claim cadence · the roll

Top-prize claim history is not published for this state.

States that report individual claim events (TX, NY, PA, FL, NC) will show a full timeline here. This game's state does not currently publish that data.

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